Best decision. Totally understand

You got my support.

That CSAM exists is horrible.
That people would maliciously spread it as some sort of prank puts an extra disgusting veneer on this whole thing.
I hope at least some of these "it's just a prank bro!" people get caught by the police and get shown just how funny society finds them.

Thanks for keeping us all safe. I'm sorry you had to deal with what ever it was.

Good work. As some other people have said on other instances, make sure you’re not just regular deleting the images as that just removes the references to them. You’ll need to overwrite them with white noise.

thanks for all your hard work

What a nightmare. Good work nuking it

Understandable. I’m thankful for your work. This hopefully won’t happen again.

I fully support what you are doing but I'm not sure I completely get it. If the attack was against a community on another instance, why do you have to wipe images on this instance? Are images posted on all federated instances stored on the Aussie.zone server?

Is there anything in place to stop those sorts of posts being made here?

As I understand it lemmys mod tools aren't great but there must be some way of stopping this behaviour.

Figure you're across this, but this is a little worrying:

https://lemmy.ca/post/4273025

Surprised orphaned photos don't already get purged automatically.